But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God - so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety! For worm-like, then, oh! who would craven crawl to land!

In our man-of-war world, Life comes in at one gangway and Death goes overboard at the other. Under the man-of-war scourge, cursesmix with tears; and the sigh and the sob furnish the bass to the shrill octave of those who laugh to drown buried griefs of their own.

Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins?

Leviathan is not the biggest fish; — I have heard of Krakens.

Boy, take my advice, and never try to invent any thing but--happiness.

Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them.

For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.